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A Short Review of Dixie Paper Coffee Cups
Sena bought some Dixie coffee cups the other day. They don’t contain polystyrene foam, which is what Styrofoam cups are made of. Dixie cups are made from paper with a polyethylene coating and contain 80% cellulose fiber by weight, according to the Dixie company website. On the other hand, many recycling centers won’t take paper…
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Phenylephrine Spelled Backwards is Enirhpelynbehp
News headlines are screaming about class action lawsuits being filed against drug companies selling the oral form of a nasal decongestant that the FDA says doesn’t work. It’s called phenylephrine. Phenylephrine has been around since the early 1970s and it’s a common ingredient in over-the-counter (OTC) cold remedies found in grocery stores in the medicine…
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The Cat is Literally Littering the Litterbox with Her Litter
Is it OK to say that using the word “literally” for emphasis bugs me—a little? I don’t get enraged and break furniture when I hear it, but it does sound wrong. I get over it in a couple of days, literally without taking any hard drugs. The problem is that some dictionaries say we can…
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Striking a Blow for Science with the Coffee Temperature Experiment!
We got our new thermometer the other day and did a coffee cup temperature test. It’s certified by the National Sanitation Foundation (NSF), but we’re not sure where it was manufactured. The instruction sheet looks like it was translated into English. First, we measured the temperature of coffee in different cups. We measured the temperature…
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Stop Me If You Heard This One Before
I saw one of my favorite X-Files episodes the other night. It’s titled “Monday.” Mulder goes through the day repetitively doing the same things, including fumbling his chance to thwart a bank robber who blows up the bank and everyone in it, including Mulder. See the Wikipedia for a full spoiler alert but I’m going…
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Clumsy Juggling
We decided to kick it up a notch with our two-person ball passing juggle routine. We switched out three of the bean bag Zeekio balls for some glowing LED juggling balls. The LEDs are bigger and heavier than the bean bags, which led to more challenging passes. They also look better in low light, so…
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Two Person 5 Ball Passing Jitterbugging Juggling!
Sena and I are going to break the internet with another video of two person juggling! OK, so maybe we won’t exactly break the internet—but we might give it a nosebleed. We had to think of a way to top our recent side hug version of tandem juggling with 3 balls. So, we tried the…
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Morning Brew
We tried out our new double wall glass mugs yesterday and I think the coffee stays hot longer in the new cup. Sena is a little doubtful. She ordered a thermometer and we’ll test it more scientifically. The mugs are lighter than I thought they would be. They don’t get hot on the outside so…
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Our New Coffee Center!
We got our new double wall glass mugs yesterday for our Keurig coffee maker, along with more K-pods. We’ll keep the K-pods in a brand-new snazzy drawer that sits on the counter under the Black and Decker coffee maker. Now we’ll see whether our coffee stays hot longer. Sena’s also planning to get a thermometer…
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Discover Tandem Juggling Just for Fun!
I found out about tandem juggling yesterday and learned how to do it from a YouTube video by genius juggler Niels Duinker and his sidekick, Piet van Steen. Sena and I picked it up pretty quickly. It’s a wide frame form of the 3-ball cascade. All we had to do was practice throwing a little…
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